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s. B. HOPKINS AND 0 JEUNEK.

.STEREOTYPER'S AND PRINTERS TOOL. APPLICATlON FILED DEC. 14, 1920.

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SYDNEY B. HOPKINS, O SUTLVIIVIIT, NEW JER$EY, AND CHARLES JELINEK, OF RICHIEGND HILL, NEVJ YORK.

STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS iOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July l, 19

Application filed. December 14, 1920. Serial No. 430,777.

To all mix/0111. it may concern.

lie it known that we, Srnnnr B. HOPKINS, a subject of th lling of Great Britain, residing at Summit, in the county of Union and State Oi New Jersey, and CrmnLns JnLiNim, a citizen of the United States, residing at liilCllillOllil llill, in the county oi Queens and tit-ate New York, have made certain ne and useful Improvements in Stereotypers and Printers Tools, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a novel stereotypers and printers hand tool for handling slabs or chases holding forms during the process or procedure of making tie matrix sheets from which stereotype plates are made, or for the handling oi forms from truck to stone, or otherwise.

Objects and advantages of the invention will he s forth in part licreina 'ter and in part will be obvious hercirom, or may be learned by practice with the invention, the same being realized and attained by means of the instrumeutalities and combinations pointed out in the appended claims.

The invention consists in the novel parts, constructions, arrangements, combinations and improvements herein saown aiul de scribed.

The accompanying drawings, referred to herein and constituting a part hereof, illustrate one embodiment of the invention, and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention.

Of "the drawings l 1 is a top plan or a stereotypers and printers tool embodying the invention;

-Fig. 2 is a side elevation looking at Fig. 1 from the bottom;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation, more or less diagrammatic, illustrating the use of the tool; and' V lligs. -land?) are enlarged i i.agmentary sections showing the engaging device for the tool formed in the chase or slab.

An exemplary use oil the tool will be descrihed in con. ection with the worko'f making stereotype plates from either electrotypes, linotypes or hand-set type, a matrix sheet is made from any of these and the stereotype plate, either flat or hemi-cylindrical, is cast from this matrix sheet.

Linotype or hand-set matter is usually locked in a chase, and electrotypes are usually placed upon a slab; that is, a Hat plate of metal, for the making of a matrix or matrices therefrom. In the appended claims the word chase has been used for the sake of brevity, but it will be understood, that the term so used includes a slab of the kind just described and any other or like carrier for the form of type or plates from which a. matrix or matrices are to be made.

Several electrotypes are usually placed upon a metal plate or slab, suflicient in numher to fill a page and a single page-size matrix sheet is made therefrom. I

A common form of layout or arrangement 01"" the matrix making apparatus consists of a relatively long table or apron with a molding machine at one end thereof and usually several steam tables, or dryin tables arranged at the side of the apron. The apron and the beds oi the molding machine and of the steam tables are usually flat metal plates arranged on a common level, and term in elieot a continuous surface along which the slabs or chases may be slid.

lhe slao o1 chase 1s placed on the molding machine and is covered with a flong, or sheet of papier-mach, over which a blanket is placed. it is run into the molding machine and then out again, and is then pushed or pulled onto the apron and into position to go into the steam table. I

The slab or chase with the plastic dong, now called a mold, adherent upon its face is pushed or slid from this position upon the apron into the steam table, and there the mold is dried to a hard or indurated condition, substantially ready to be put into the casting boX. The slab or chase is then drawn or pushed out of the steam table back upon the apron, and the indurated matrix is stripped therefrom.

device become so hot, from the repeatedoperations of the steam table, as to be addilong stem portion 1, which may be of ordi:

nary round iron rod of about a half-inch in diameter, although specific dimensions are immaterial except as to securing a sailieiently sturdy construction of the device. At the outer end thereof, the stem 1 is provided with a hand grip 2 of suitable or convenient form, r

The other end of the tool engages with a properly formed recess in the chase or slab or in ring projecting from. the end thereof, or with any suitable engaging device formed in, or aiiiXed thereto. As embodied, this end of the tool is formed into a hook 3 curved or bent upwardly from the stem 1. Suitable rolling means, or a rolling support, is provided located at or near the juncture of the stem and hook portions of the tool. As embodied, rod or shaft 1- isar ranged at right angles to the stem 1 at the juncture of the stem and hook, and rollers 5 and 6 are mounted upon the rod f at either side of the stem. Suitable means for retainmg the rollers 1n position are proiqded, and

as shown washers 7 and 8 are mounted on the rod loutsidethe rollers 5 and 6, the ends of the rod being slightly ups-ct outslde the washers.

' In Fig. 3 the manner of using the device is shown. The tool-is grasped in the hand of the workmanand is held mOIGOI less approximately vertically, in which position the hook enters the recess 9 or ring 10 in the chase or slab 11,- which rests fla t upon table 12. The tool is then drawn downwardly or backwardly, the-hook passingthereby into secure engagement with the recess 01 ring, and lifting that end of the chase or slab from the table, the rollers 4 and 5, in this position resting upon the table .12 and holding the tool just clear of the table.

The chase or slab may then be'readily pulled or pushed along the table 12inv the 'manner and for the purposes already described or indicated, or for other convenient or necessary purposes. 7

The laborand tune involved 111 pushingthe slabs or chases in the usual way are very greatly reduced, and the suction which commonly holds a slab or chase to the molding table is immediately and easily broken. The, trouble and delay due to handling hot slabs orchases is avoided, and the use of cumbrous, bulky and expensive kicker mechanisms and like devices is done away with.'

What we claim is 1. A stereotypers and printers hand tool adaptedto engage and raise one end of a chase or slab and slide it in and out upon the steam table, said tool having a longitudinally extending stem with a hand grip at the top thereof, the lower end of the stem terminating in an upwardly curved portion adapted to engage with the chase or slab,

and a' pair ofoutwardly extending rollers.

one at either side of the stem, at the beginning of said upwardly curved portion.

2. A stereotyperls and printers hand tool adapted to engage and raise one end of a chase or slab and slide it in and out upon the steam table, said tool having a longitudinally extending stem with a hand grip at the top thereof, the lower end of t e stem terminating in an upwardly curved portion adapted to engage with the chase or slab,

and a rolling supp'ort at'the' beginning of said upwardly curved' portion.

. 3. The combination with a chase having a "hook-receiving device atone end thereof,

of a stereotypers and p-rinters, tool having a longitudinally extending stem with a hand grip at the outer end thereof and a hook V ouridng frointhe opposite end of the stem and adapted to engage-the hook-receiving device on the chasewhile the chase is lying on the table and to raise said end of the chase and to slide the chase along the table supported upon the tool and upon the opposite 7 end of. the chase.

4:. The combination with a chase having a hook-receiving device at one end thereof, of a stereotypers and printers tool having a longitudinally extending stem with a hand grip at the outer end thereof and a hook curving from the opposite end of the stem, a rolling support at the juncture of the hook and stem, the hook being adapted to engage the hook-receiving device on thechase while the chase is on the steam. table and to raise said end of the chase andtoslide the chase along the table supported upon said rollingsupport and upon the opposite end of the chase. y

5. A stereotypers and printers tool adapted to slide a chase or slab along a steam table or other support, said tool having a 1011- gitudinally extending stem with a hand portion adapted to engage withv one end of the chase or slab to lift said end f'romsaid support with the tool extending away from the chase, the tool having an intermediate portion upon which the tool is supported to slide the chase" withone end resting upon said support and with its opposite end supported by the tool.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' SYDNEY B; HOPKINS.

7 CHARLES JELINEK.

Witnesses Lauren Pownns, GEORGE W, SPURGEON, 

